EDITORIAL
Supply chain is the focus of the modern enterprise competition, fight online users and traffic, the line to fight the supply chain, has become the consensus of many enterprises. In recent years, the "Made in China" and "e-commerce" to bring about great development, SCM has become in many ERP companies after the new standard.
Today, the booming mobile Internet, cloud computing, big data, AI technology is getting more mature, enterprise information systems become cloud technology trends, new technologies become the norm. In this context, the traditional enterprise SCM system go from here, a topic of great concern to a lot of friends CIO.
Li Weiliang (moderator)
Please first tell you about, what is the supply chain (Supply Chain) and supply chain management? What are the main supply chain nodes and usually contain?
Xu Xiao-jun (guest)
On the supply chain and supply chain management, in many textbooks, there are many professional statement. Plainly speaking, the supply chain is to focus on the core business, through logistics, information flow, capital flow controls, built starting from procurement of raw materials, intermediate products to be made and the final product, and finally by the sales network to deliver products to consumers the hands of a network chain. In this network chain, typically include suppliers, distributors, logistics service providers, end customers, and many other subjects.
It can be said, is an enterprise supply chain from end to end, an important function throughout the whole process of operating, and supply chain management is the entire supply chain planning, coordination, operation, control and optimize the various activities and processes. Provide support for supply chain management information system, that is, we often say that SCM (Supply Chain Management System Supply Chain Management).
Li Weiliang
In the new era, the traditional SCM why the need for transformation? What direction is the transition?
Xu Xiaojun
With economic globalization, the Internet continuous progress, enterprise supply chain system is also undergoing tremendous changes, such as: further lengthen the supply chain, customer orders increasingly diverse, increasingly short delivery, storage and carriage The dispersion and so on more than business. Growing competition, the emergence of new business models, the market is becoming more and more unpredictable, fluctuating become a new norm.
In this context, the shortcomings of traditional SCM system began to appear: orders, warehousing, transportation and other systems fragmented, lack of information sharing and cooperation mechanism, it is difficult to cope with the surge of massive amounts of data, we can not make a timely response to market changes and adjustments ...... the traditional supply chain management systems are increasingly powerless, change is imperative.
At the same time, mobile Internet, cloud computing, big data, networking, artificial intelligence and other new technology matures, more and more low-cost applications, it also provides the possibility for change and innovation in the supply chain management systems.
Supply chain has inherent properties of multiple connections from external suppliers, distributors to internal sales, purchasing, production, storage, transportation, from truck drivers to the end consumer, are objects of supply chain connections. + Popularization of mobile social, cloud computing, networking and other technologies, so that today a better supply chain system can connect these objects. The traditional concept of logistics, capital flow, information flow, "third-rate one" needs to be upgraded, today, through the application of new technologies, can be the fourth largest in the supply chain elements of the "people" are also connected together, so that "four streams together One".
Connection will naturally bring vast amounts of data, and Big Data technologies can help us get value from the massive amounts of data in order to further optimize the supply chain system.
After several years of development and application of cloud computing cultivate the C-terminal market "On Demand" that is "on-demand" capability and habits, today, consumption habits also extends to the B-side.
Not difficult to see, mobile, cloud, integration, intelligence, supply chain system is an important direction for the transition. A new generation of SCM are relying on new technologies, to connect more elements, including humans, to achieve a seamless transfer of data supply chain for enterprises should create the need to change, smart decisions, flexible expansion, the digital supply chain system to respond quickly.
Li Weiliang
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